funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

https://soundcloud.com/l_phonix/blend-masterbuilders-l-phonix-yllavation-remix-free-download

not even sure what funky is in 2015 but it should all be like that imo ^

http://www.factmag.com/2016/04/05/drake-one-dance-uk-funky-crazy-cousinz-sample/

This is a catastrophic moment in the history of music.

drake - not a funky house sceptic

more a funky house septic

come on j0rd be real u know u ride for this

lol

does r|t|c?

i cant

milquetoast the only 2 foods we know for sure j0rd has eaten amirite lol

nah good read on d40's part though, tbrr i do semi-seriously feel like funky in its essence has been proven to be an ineffable mystery known or remembered by like maybe ten ppl in the world so i'm actually kind of intrigued by the ways it will get burped up even if it is to be by this canadian dickwad who clearly deserves assassination. perhaps not even but especially given he is a fresh-eyed (bc avaricious) foreign element - from what i can see this news has been well received by the uk with what seems to me a telling tinge of relief/release

do i like it?... it's a vibe idk i'm not dismissing. i am generally more wary than ever before of holding onto the past in cancerous ways. young ppl are not me and me ppl are dead or as good as so pick the bones out of that

honestly i have previously toyed with suggesting an actual funky revival is real and in the fleeting offing (see disclosure thread), or rather a kind of more afro-tribal-positive proto-bruk beat subconscious moodboard pool at least, but... it's like ppl are drawing a blank at it, like the constructive materials are put in place but the je ne sais quoi is missing and they know it. a full mandate would be like the funkysouls messageboard version. all of which quite fitting bc funky in its original form already inherently carried a complicated bundle of nostalgic nuance (see several thousand vintage posts upthread lol jokes on u)

i mean (and basically shadowboxing with lex now) it's very easy to bun this out straight away - 'do u mind' the deathless totem never to be traduced, least not by _____ , uk pathetically biddable uk ever - which is not to say too easy (actually it's correct) i'm just wondering aloud if defending until the end of days the number u happened to get sometime on life's roulette wheel is really how it's meant to be i guess

So Drake made u confront your own mortality or

It may be more fruitful to criticize for reducing wizkid to a garnish

yeah i like this, i was just making a joke.

as far as drake songs go, i much prefer something like this than to all the chest-thumping hyper-masculine shit he's released in the last year-plus. "take care" is def one of his only songs that has really aged well imo. he's def doing a heavy ramriddlz thing here which is kinda wack objectively but i think he sounds good floating stupid sing-song come ons over warm, clubby beats like this. i've found myself of the position that his part on "work" is essential. as far as "one dance" goes i don't think the way they sample the original hook works at all, they should have just left it off.

& as david says i'm more offended by him giving wizkid a credited feature despite his voice being barely audible, it smacks of a grab for tastemaker cred w/o putting much skin in the game

there was some other song recently that did this same sorta thing & i'm forgetting it now, but the way drake uses wizkid on this ("garnish" is a pretty good comparison) reminds me of jamie xx only using popcaan as an accent (maybe literally lol) on "good times" & makes me wonder if that song will spawn some imitators

"take care" is def one of his only songs that has really aged well imo

i mean singles. same for "hold on we're going home" which i never get tired of.

based on the itunes sample of this i can listen to the "do you mind" sample just kinda arrives and does its thing with no particularly meaningful relationship to the rest of the song, on an execution level it's not as strong as "take care".

I don't think the legacy of uk funky particularly needs defending though - esp. given most people were always and forever wrong about it regardless.

Is the whole thing out there yet? The snippet definitely has more of a low key Naija thing going than a UK funky vibe per se but I can barely hear Wizkid at all.

Weird that Kyla, who no one has heard of, apparently gets a credited feature alongside him.

i've found myself of the position that his part on "work" is essential

this opinion might be even worse than drake vulturing over uk funky

i've had the "ooh a uk funky revival would be amazing, scene burned out too soon" conversation so many times in the past half decade but it's not as if people haven't been constantly trying! just that the ineffable magic hasn't been there (listening to the vocal tunes off the new roska and lil silva eps now and, like, they're alright i guess, always nice to hear nyah, as it was on that trc track last year, but none of these are "do you mind" or "frontline" level and everyone knows it)

aside from "one dance" being the usual drizzly dreck that doesn't even make especially good use of its source material (that slight slowing down of the tempo is going to drive me absolutely insane if this song becomes somewhat ubiquitous) it feels weird in the same way that american indie anglophilia always felt slightly creepy, drake's approach to the uk and nigeria is appropriative not just in the social justice way but in the usual clumsy middle-class grasping for a cool that isn't yours and wasn't yours ever, and oddly out of step with where the uk scene's nostalgia is actually at right now (ukg)

and yes reducing wizkid to a garnish exemplifies this even more but it's all part and parcel of the same thing

imma need j0rdan to justify that horrible "work" opinion before anything else though. his verse is SUCH a buzzkill and it goes on for so long

some funky-ish bits that dj q has been playing sound great in context but don't really stand up on their own, though i guess that was always the case for a good part of funky and stuff q plays. but i like this one:

https://soundcloud.com/complex-uk/premiere-murder-he-wrote-stopwatch-f-maddie-ellerby

and the new flava d:

https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/premiere-flava-d-wheels

the cerrone/todd edwards fits with the afro thing too.

wonder if anything of note will surface with the rks remastered series roska is doing.

kyla, at least <3

http://www.thefader.com/2016/04/14/kyla-interview

(she's married to paleface!!)

ahh i'm so glad this was done! it was immediately p much the only thread i wanted pulled

i m/l still subscribe to what i was saying here Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) about the pseudo-honesty of theft vs the reflected self-flattery of cosmopolitan patronage ("Drake would be really happy to help you boost your career") but the human side of it does win out nevertheless i guess

re the track though, i was amazed (eh well relatively) just how useless the cdq ended up compared to the clip. prosaic, vibeless, soporific

sorta cute i suppose how for all the global v/pillage hype we are here presented this perfunctory logistic reality instead, intercontinental commerce containerized on a large rusting cargo ship slowly glugging along its trade route spilling fumes

The track seems to transcends generations and cultures">speak to different cultures and genres.

appropriate subbing mishap lolz btw

ha yeah when the rich art patrons are other artists. "this would be a really good move" ah but for whom

(striking how this is the first we've really gotten to know kyla a bit - if only the churning content machine had been around then, it'd've been so much easier to pitch a quick Q&A with one-single uk funky vocalists)

crit > human stories

And "Love Lockdown" is precisely it, totally anony-motive vocals b/c you wouldn't want it any other way.

― Tim F, Sunday, 1 August 2010 12:59 Bookmark

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tg32s

don't talk to me or my crazy cousin ever again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x9nqn

couple of weeks ago i found myself waiting upon a night bus at the stop opposite the hackney empire, which has a little club or bar type thing in the corner there if yall familz. anyway as i harrumphed @ tfl in my dishevelled state i recognised a vaguely familiar sound emanating from said venue. gadzooks (i remarked internally) if it isnt the migraine skank by gracious k! and a live pa at that! shortly afterwards an unimpressive gang of revellers streamed out of the place and ran to the nearby bus stop and back again, to muted cheers. come up on stage all of you cried gracious k. i put my headphones in and pulled up citymapper once more, content to accept that funky was still dead.

jam with the usual "shout out to jack poppy olivia and gabriel in halls" beeb biz. [actual transcript, no golby]. least he got tadow horns in there i spose

All the streaming services deleted "this is classic uk funky" from their sites. RIP genre, you are now a drake meme

In all seriousness if someone has a zip for that comp I'd kill for it

hadnt seen it before

https://www.7digital.com/artist/various-artists/release/this-is-classic-uk-funky-house

this seems to be the only place where it's still listed to buy (and flacs too) but uk only i'm supposing

u might have decent luck seeking the tracks individually, esp if the ogs itt still have functional hard drives from then unlike myself

I have like 95% of that comp anyway but the mix was nice Friday evening comfort food. It's one of the few places where the Aidonia Bounce is commercially available as well and certainly the only place where it was on a streaming service.

Ugh "Funky Steps".

that comp totally passed me by too. i've got most of the tunes already but theres a few that weren't available or that i've never even heard before (or maybe just forgotten) that i might have to grab.

anyway, FNG - Night time july : this tune sounds super super familiar, did it come out under another name? i'm sure i've got it but can't find anything by FNG on the harddrive

^^ it's by fingaprint

aah yeah had a feeling it was off invasion records thanks! i had that 12" with space invasion on the flip, classic riddims both.

Looks like there is a US download for this 🙏🏻 thanks rtc

Yeah it wasn't so much that this was some kind of defining document or something as it was an easily available overview that touched on many of the important records, unlike the trash playlist introductions to uk funky or whatever

Also "do you mind" is no longer on streaming 🤔 *looks to toronto*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdRFqYopBRI

never forget (= totally forget until just now)

https://www.7digital.com/artist/ministry-of-sound/release/the-sound-of-uk-funky

this one isn't so bad in retrospect. rly it's only the keystone invasion crew (fingaprint & tadow) cuts that set the other one apart

https://www.beatport.com/track/lets-do-it-again-kenny-dope-dub/546305

by the by i was looking for something else a while ago and accidentally reacquainted myself with this utter classic, probably somewhat forgotten bit of foundational filth

Tadow's "Rising Sun" remains the archetypal "makes no sense on its own but is the best tune ever in the mix" track.

I for one never forgot and will never forget the "Find Your Love" remix.

My treasured Marcus Nasty 2008 sets are sounding particularly excellent to date. I think I've been in mourning ever since funky died .